Like I said a couple episodes ago, I'm gonna be changing up this daily practice.
I still want to be doing daily practice.
Or let me, actually let me restart.
I said before, what I was doing before was I would just batch record seven to nine episodes
on Saturday or Sunday.
And at that point it wasn't really necessary for the practice, yes I was getting good practice
out of it.
But at that point it was just for the podcast.
And then after doing that I have to sit down for maybe two hours, like uploading the audio
to the software to make the audio sound better.
And then I have to like do all this stuff.
I don't want to do that anymore.
It's a waste of time because the podcast is not my purpose.
The YouTube channel is my purpose.
And so I want to cut out all of the things that are not helping me on the YouTube channel.
So the changes, I took the past couple days since I recorded the last practice episode.
I took maybe a week.
And the changes that I decided to make are I'm gonna start doing daily practice again.
And this is because I saw a YouTube video.
Okay, actually this takes a whole story.
Let me tell you the whole story first.
My friend and mentor, my YouTube mentor, sent me a YouTube video.
And it was like an hour and a half long Hamza YouTube video.
And he said watch this video at this time stamp.
It was like 50 minutes in.
So I watched it.
And Hamza was talking about learning and how you must be constantly learning and constantly
consuming content in order to grow and progress as fast as possible.
Because when he started his YouTube channel, he was, he just, he cut out all content.
He thought that content was terrible and it was bad.
And he cut it all out, which is exactly what I'd been doing over the past month or two.
And so he cut out all content.
Now him, I think he wasn't reading, but I am reading.
So it's a little different.
So I didn't cut out all content.
I just cut out all online content.
But then he said that he wasn't really making much progress.
And then the moment he decided to start watching YouTube videos, listening to podcasts and just
learning about all the things that he needs to know for his channel, he started getting
so much ideas.
And so I sat on that for a little bit and I started thinking about that.
I was like, oh, maybe I am doing a little bit wrong.
I'm not really making that much grand progress in the, like in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, I 10X to my views, which actually, yeah, that is a lot of progress.
But I think I've reached a point where I need, I, I should be consuming a lot of content
now.
And so I, right after that video, I started consuming content.
I just, I made a conscious decision to start consuming YouTube content now.
But instead of what I was doing before, which was just half-hatter, literally watching random
videos, now I'm being purposeful about it and I'm searching what type of videos I want.
And then once I search it and get it into my algorithm, then I look on my YouTube homepage
and then watch the videos that I need, like that I want to learn about for this topic.
So that's what, that's what I'm doing for the YouTube videos.
So that's just context for why I'm watching YouTube videos now.
And then in one of the, the videos that I watched, it was a Hamza video and he said
that, because one of the things I want to learn about, which I'm reading about right
now is storytelling.
I bought two books on storytelling and I started one of them.
It's, one of them is called the power of personal storytelling.
And then the other one is unleash the power of storytelling.
I'm pretty sure that's what they're called, but I, I'm starting to read this one and I'm
getting some good ideas.
And so I started as a result, I started practicing my storytelling.
And then I was like, oh, now that I'm watching YouTube, I'm going to look up how to be a
better storyteller.
And like, I'm going to look up things about storytelling.
And so I see a Hamza video and he said that one of the practices that he learned about
in a storytelling book called story worthy, it was called like everyday homework or something
like that.
I've renamed it to something that I'm able to remember a lot easier, which is story work.
Excuse me, which is daily story work.
And so I, it's basically where you, at the end of the day, you sit down and try and think
of a story that happened today, just anything that happened that is a story, which is like
pretty difficult to do if you've never really consciously looked for stories in your day.
And Hamza gave a very good story about how he, like his, he made his girlfriend smile,
which he gave a very compelling story in that video about that.
And then he said that that was the story he chose to write down in his story, in his daily
story work.
So this habit is you sit at the end of the day and sit and come up or remember a story
that happened today.
And then you write it down and you write it down so you can remember it.
And so he wrote down his story and it was how he made his girlfriend smile.
And then he ended up telling that story in the video to explain how he came up with that
story, which he never would have realized was a story until he actually wrote it down.
So the point is he went about his day and it seems like nothing happened.
Like there was no story.
But then once he started to sit down and think, he sat down, he's like, what am I going to
write down?
There's no story.
And then he finally remembered of how he made his girlfriend smile.
And then that became a whole story.
So even the normal moments in your day can become a story.
And so on the first day that I started this habit was yesterday.
And I actually came up with three stories.
One of the stories I came up with before I even sat down and then I ended up writing
it before because, okay, so I start writing it at 4.30.
That's when I just sit down to start journaling my story because that's my nighttime routine.
So one of the stories I wrote down before 4.30 and then the last two I came up with
and wrote down around 4.30.
And over the next couple of weeks, that's what I'm going to be doing.
I'm going to be...
The new habit that I'm taking up is I sit down every night and I write down or I come
up with a story that happened to me today and then I write it down.
And then this part, the next part that I'm about to say, was not a part of the daily
story practice, the daily story work, but I decided to add it because it's extra practice
speaking my story.
It's extra practice for the YouTube channel.
And so after I write that story down, I go to bed and then the next day, after I'm done
with work, I'm going to make it a habit to write down...or not write down, but to actually
say the story, so to actually say what I am trying to say.
Or let me...how am I supposed to say this?
The next day, I actually say the story and I onto a recording.
So I record myself telling the story.
So then every single day I practice coming up with stories, writing them down, as well
as telling stories physically through speech.
So that's what I'm going to be doing over the next couple of days.
And like I said, I don't want to waste time anymore on the podcast because it's not my
main focus right now.
So what I'm going to be doing, what I have been doing was uploading the YouTube video
or the recording onto a software to make the audio sound better.
I'm not going to do that anymore because it takes a lot of time.
So now I'm just going to be posting the audio straight onto the podcast.
So I'm not going to do any work to try and improve the quality of the audio.
Instead I'm just going to post the raw audio, which includes all of the pauses.
So you're going to hear me pause a lot.
I did cut out the pauses before, but now I'm not.
So this is the last video where I'm going to be improving the audio and taking out the
pauses.
Over the next videos, all over the next episodes, I will not be doing such things.
I'm just going to be posting the raw footage onto the podcast.
And I'm also going to treat it like I'm telling a YouTube video.
I'm not going to be treating it like a podcast.
So that's it.
So look out for tomorrow's episode about a wholesome moment, or not even a wholesome
moment, but look out for tomorrow's episode, which is going to be the first story from
today.